An infinite journey starting from paradise

"Student Xiao Ai."

"I'm here."

For the first time ever, Ashrose appeared in her own human form in the simulated dream created by Lin Shangren.

"What did I just see?"

"My Lord, what did you just see?"

They both spoke at the same time.

Hearing Ashrose's question, he realized that he was the only one who could see the scenes just now. He replied, "I saw the demise of the universe, the passing of countless lives, and everything returning to silence. It was her who did it."

At this point, Lin Shangren paused, rubbing the back of his neck out of habit, and continued, "I've asked you before about your origins and the origins of these props and abilities. At that time, you said that I couldn't handle that information. But, now... can you tell me now?"

"I……"

Ashrose hesitated. In fact, she couldn't give a truly accurate answer to the questions asked by Lin Shangren. More importantly, although this information could be narrated in human language, she couldn't tell Lin Shangren in person - just like in the Cthulhu mythology, even the old gods like Nodens and Ctanid who were friendly to humans, when they wanted to impart knowledge that humans could understand, that information would also have an impact and corruption on humans like other forbidden knowledge that humans could not understand.

Lin Shangren could only sense some reservations about Ashrose, so he continued, "I know that for some reason you can't tell me everything you know. But, can we play Turtle Soup, like I'll raise a hypothesis, and you'll answer with 'yes', 'no', or 'I don't know'? Is that okay?"

"Well, sure. But..."

After pondering for a moment, Ashloth walked up to Lin Shangren and held him in her arms: "I have to protect you well to avoid any accidents."

"Then don't hold me so tight." Lin Shangren also hugged Ashrose with his backhand, rubbing his cheek against her chest, "It's a little uncomfortable."

"Hmph, if you don't like it, then don't rub it. I advise you not to move around. Even if you really want to do something, you can't break my membrane now." After answering, Ashrose reached out and stroked Lin Shangren's hair.

"Stop joking and be serious. Did the abilities and props you drew from the system prize pool come from other universes?" Lin Shangren asked.

"Yes." Ashrose replied.

"Are those universes in the ocean of possibilities or multiverse system that we live in?"

"No."

"That's outside the multiverse we're in?"

"Yes."

"Those universes were destroyed?"

"Yes."

"Did the Mother Goddess do this?"

"do not know."

"Are you also from outside the multiverse we live in?"

"I don't know." Ashrose pondered, then added, "Although I don't know, I don't think so."

"Is that so? Then, the sources of these abilities and items want me to defeat the Mother Goddess and avenge them?" Lin Shangren asked again.

"I don't know, maybe."

"So, actually you don't know much about everything outside the universe system we live in?" Lin Shangren asked.

"Yes. Sorry..."

"You don't need to apologize. You've done a great job." Lin Shangren said, sniffing the fresh scent emanating from Ashrose and waving his hand to unfold the system's task list.

Lin Shangren pointed to a system task and asked, "This task, 'Born for Me,' is the reward for this 'ordinary ruby,' is it the Dreamstone of Morpheus, the god of dreams?"

"Yes."

Lin Shangren asked again: "Was it put into the system prize pool by the Mother Goddess?"

"Probably not, but I can't be sure right now." Ashrose replied.

"Really?"

"Well……"

Ashrose pondered, ultimately deciding to take a risk and show Lin Shangren the so-called system prize pool. She loosened her embrace and sat up straight. Just as Lin Shangren wondered what the system mother was going to do, Ashrose's slender fingers had already unbuttoned her shirt. She pulled open the collar without revealing her secondary female sexual characteristics. Her chest shone with a white light, and within it, a faint golden roulette wheel could be seen.

"This is the system reward pool, and it's also one of the core elements of my life. It lacks independent consciousness, yet it's not under my control either. Instead, it operates according to its own logic. Whenever we enter a new universe, it will generate tasks based on that universe's operating rules and energy levels. Once a task is completed, I will use it to obtain some energy from that universe, and with that..."

Having said this, Ashrose closed her mouth. She noticed that Lin Shangren's soul was obviously trembling. Obviously, this was the limit of the information that Lin Shangren could directly obtain from her at this stage of his life level.

Seeing that Ashrose had suddenly fallen silent, Lin Shangren roughly understood her concerns, so he continued, "Then you can use that energy to extract powers or props from 'somewhere' that match this energy and originate from some destroyed universe?"

"Yes."

Ashrose replied as she put her clothes back on.

Lin Shangren continued to ask, "Is this 'somewhere' similar to the Void in Marvel Comics?"

"There are indeed similarities, but... I can't say for sure." Ashrose answered carefully.

"Is there life in it?" Lin Shangren asked again.

"No."

"Only powers and gadgets from a destroyed universe can enter there?"

"No."

"In that case, how do you know for sure that the items in the prize pool originated from the Mother Goddess? Or is there some kind of restriction, so that only items and abilities that meet certain conditions can enter?"

"Yes."

After receiving a positive answer, Lin Shangren asked again: "The destruction of the universe you are in is definitely one of the specific conditions. What about other conditions? Can the time traveler also inject items and abilities into it?"

“Yes, but it’s not a necessary condition.”

"Well... then the condition is to have a system like yours, Xiao Ai. No, to be more precise, you need to have the same prize pool in the shape of a golden roulette." Lin Shangren speculated.

"Yes."

"I understand." Lin Shangren rubbed the back of his neck and instantly figured out many things:

The mother goddess who was transformed from the girl who was suspected to have exchanged blood with herself was a being similar to Marvel's Galactus, but she was more advanced and powerful. She devoured the universe and even the entire multiverse system in which the universe was located.

Some universes, such as Euphoria, have developed self-awareness. Before being devoured and destroyed, these universes' self-awareness sent some of their own objects and abilities into the "reward pool," hoping that beings with systems or the ability to extract abilities from the pool would be able to extract their relics and gain information about the "Mother Goddess" from them, taking precautions early and perhaps even using their relics to defeat the Mother Goddess and avenge her.

This is why most of the abilities and props produced by the system have unreasonable conceptual-level capabilities and extremely high development potential - they are the final echoes of certain universes.

There are probably two possibilities as to why Lin Shangren was unable to obtain this information from these abilities and props before. First, he was too weak to activate the implicit information therein. Second, the source of these powers and props was too weak, and the cosmic consciousness to which they belonged was too weak. Sending them into the prize pool was already the limit, and no more information could be attached to them.

"She did this on purpose." Lin Shangren's eyes were fixed on the necklace made of Dream Stone fragments.

According to the Eye of Innocence's appraisal of the Dreamstone Fragment Necklace, the necklace contained a message, but due to the incomplete Dreamstone, it could not be read. To read the message, one had to find the remaining Dreamstone fragment. That fragment was currently in the system's prize pool.

"Want to know what message the universe I so ruthlessly insulted and slaughtered left for you, a potential avenger, before it vanished? Then go and complete this special mission, and make all those elves pregnant. That's what that guy was thinking, right?"

Lin Shangren rubbed the back of his neck.

"She set a trap for me to fall into, and I had to choose the lesser of two evils. That really seems like her style. I shouldn't have only retained such a tiny memory of such an 'interesting' villainous woman..."

Thinking about it, Lin Shangren shook his head helplessly.

"Anyway, she wants to use me as a breakthrough point to invade this multiverse system. Since she can't directly interfere with this multiverse system, I still have a chance."

Lin Shangren closed his eyes and began to think of a solution.

After a long time, he finally left the simulated dream. Sato Miwako was still kneeling beside him, looking at him with eyes full of worry.

"Inspector Lin...I..."

"I'm fine." Lin Shangren reached out and rubbed Sato Miwako's head. "Just think of me as someone who's been ill from overwork. I'm sorry I can't continue having dinner with you."

Although Lin Shangren adjusted the time flow rate of the simulated dream to the slowest, he had been unconscious for a long time before, and the time had exceeded Lin Shangren's original plan. It seemed that he could only choose between Kisaki Eri and Kujo Reiko tonight.

Feeling the warm touch from Lin Shangren's large palm, Sato Miwako was a little dazed for a moment. She blurted out: "Dad..."

"Ah? What did you say?"

Miwako Sato, having regained her composure, was a little embarrassed. She spoke incoherently, "No, no, no, I'm saying, Inspector, please don't move. Do you want to rest here for a while? Oh... by the way... I've called an ambulance... You should just lie down on the sofa and rest for a while."

"I said, I'm fine. I should go."

Sato Miwako wanted to keep him, but the next second Lin Shangren's figure suddenly disappeared, leaving her alone there wondering if everything that had just happened was a dream.

On the other side, Lin Shangren teleported directly to Kujo Reiko's apartment. After opening the door with his key, he found that Kujo Reiko was taking a shower. He greeted her through the bathroom door and went straight into the bedroom to lie down.

After a while, the bathroom door opened.

Kujo Reiko lazily emerged, wearing a baggy yukata. She casually unwrapped the snow-white towel from her head, letting her cascading hair cascade over her shoulders. Then, with a shake of her shoulders, the baggy yukata slid to the floor. Her pale body quickly flung itself onto the bed, threw back the covers, and slipped in.

Two slippery arms wrapped around Lin Shangren without a word, and her face was pressed tightly against his chest, breathing heavily. Lin Shangren also hugged her warm body tightly, and one big hand dishonestly touched her from her bare shoulders to her round buttocks.

Both of them were under a lot of pressure. Although Lin Shangren released it on other people, at this moment he just wanted to empty his mind and have a good time with his lover.

pigeon day

Just as the title says, coo coo coo.

Chapter 455: The Female Operation of the Queen of Another World

There are indescribable terrifying existences outside glaring at him, and countless traps with evil intentions inside waiting for him to step into, but the information and abilities he has are extremely limited... Although Lin Shangren can barely maintain his current peaceful life and ensure that the development of most things can be under his own control, he still feels uneasy when he thinks of the big trouble of the Mother Goddess.

"Oh... trouble."

Lin Shangren sighed and stared at the ceiling.

His current optimal solution was to continuously become stronger: obtaining more relics from other destroyed universes through world quests issued by the System Girl, and practicing the power systems of the worlds he explored. This would elevate his life to a level that would at least allow him to truly understand his enemies.

"We need to explore some higher worlds."

He recalled the explorable worlds Ashrose had captured. Sekiro's power level was undoubtedly the lowest. Whether it was Dragon's Blood Strength, Infested Worm, or Undying Slash's "Tears of Worship," they were far superior to his current [Bird Doctor] and [Great Avatar]. Undying Slash's "Open Door," the ability to sacrifice a person and resurrect the dead, was also relatively useless to Lin Shangren. The corresponding low-level worlds with pit extraction skills weren't particularly powerful either, making exploration of them the lowest priority.

Then there is the world of "Kamen Rider Faiz". According to Ashrose's observation, this is just a single world and is not connected to the entire worldview of Kamen Rider. The knight system relying on Luna Metal and the combat power of Orphino are also very limited. Lin Shangren intends to enter it to stop the series of Min-style tragedies that cannot recognize people through the suit, but he does not intend to spend too much time and energy in it.

The world of Berserk is similarly bleak, offering little to Lin Shangren's advancement. Furthermore, according to Ashrose's observations, the Eclipse of that world has already occurred, and Guts has already acquired the Berserk Armor. For Lin Shangren, rather than descending like a god and crushing Griffith, the Hand of God, and the Law of Causality with a single blow, he hopes Guts can use his own strength, as a human, to shatter that bleak fate and avenge himself, the Hawks, and everyone else.

"I could help Guts improve the Dragon Slayer and the Wild Armor, at least allowing him to inflict damage on Griffith. And then... send a batch of Dongfeng to Rickit? Humanity relying on its own technology and wisdom to defeat gods and fate is not cheating.

Speaking of which, the quest rewards in the Berserk world should be related to the Soul-based worldview, right?

Then there was Saw, The Undisputed, and The Gourmet.”

From the plot setting to the combat performance, "Gourmet Prisoner" undoubtedly has the highest combat power among these worlds. Moreover, as a hot-blooded manga that almost became one of the pillars of Jump, the worlds related to it are most likely works of the same type.

"I remember there was an episode where Aro, Luffy, and Kugou collaborated. The physical enhancement of the gourmet cells is already outrageous enough. If they can also extract abilities from Dragon Ball through world missions, it would be best if they could cultivate the outrageous explosive power in Dragon Ball. If that's the case, I should be able to withstand the information you know, right? Huh? Xiao Ai-san."

"It should be about the same. I can't confirm it. (?˙ー˙?)"

[So, are you planning to go to that world first? (???????)]

"Do not."

Lin Shangren waved his hand to expand the task panel, and pointed his finger at the task named [Demon God of Destruction].

"I have to complete this mission first. After all, I need to get the support supplies given to me by 'Big Brother on the List'.

"To completely destroy the original order of Midgard as a demon god? I had originally planned to slowly rebuild while destroying it, but it seems I have to speed up the process." Lin Shangren made a decision.

What do you plan to do with the worlds of Saw Man and Outlaw? (?°3°?)

"Well..."

Since Lin Shangren died in Burkina Faso before the serialization of "Chainsaw Man 2" began, his understanding of "Chainsaw Man" only stayed at the first part. To him, the manga seemed like a somewhat radical nihilistic fantasy, based on Plato's "Theory of Forms" and mixed with a lot of R-rated film elements. Lin Shangren loved this kind of whimsical work and was intrigued by the bad women and the good women who were still alive. So even though that world wouldn't significantly improve his combat power, he would still explore it.

As for "Outlaws," Hayashi Naoto didn't know much about the manga, but he knew it was likely an otome anime. While it was also a superpowered combat manga, Hayashi Naoto wasn't particularly interested in female-centric content. So, just like with the "Sekiro" universe, he decided to put it on hold for now.

"There's also a world of Super Robot Wars, right? It's more realistic, but we've entered the space age after all, so there's still room for exploration."

After making new plans, Lin Shangren felt a little more at ease. He turned over and hugged the already sleeping Kujo Reiko, gently kissed the tip of her nipple which was still wet with milk, and then fell into a deep sleep.

……

While Lin Shangren was experiencing this series of changes in the world of science, the situation of the war between the Kingdom of Keludora and the Kingdom of Redgardo on the continent of Midgard also changed because of the massacre he had carried out that morning:

As a large number of regular dark elves were slaughtered, the mother bodies that created the orcs, a large number of war horses and other supplies such as military rations were looted, the Kairudra army, which was originally on the offensive, had to make a tactical shift.

However, since the Kingdom of Kairudra had always used the abstract Three Alls Policy to fight to support the war, all the cities it passed through were destroyed, leaving only a few trade hubs close to the Kingdom of Kairudra. If it retreated, it would be difficult to find cities to supply and prepare, so this strategic shift almost made the Kairudra army give up nearly 30% of the captured territory.

The Redgardo Kingdom's defenders, however, did not pursue them. Firstly, due to a lack of intelligence, they simply couldn't understand the sudden and abrupt actions of the Keludora army and suspected a ruse, so they remained inactive. Secondly, it was because of the women of various races who had been sent to Redgardo by the Linshang people for refuge. The local government of Redgardo would undoubtedly question these individuals who had suddenly appeared in the heart of the country. Some of them were quick-witted and simply claimed to be refugees seeking refuge, but others, as the Linshang people demanded, explained that they were prisoners of war rescued by the Linshang people, the Emperor of Ivlorien.

The major kingdoms of other races would not react much to the Kingdom of Ivlorien, which had perished fifteen hundred years ago, but the Kingdom of Ridgardo was different. Ridgardo was to Ivlorien what the three kingdoms of Han, Zhao and Wei were to the Kingdom of Jin during the Warring States Period. For those nobles who had seized the territory of the Hagarm royal family, it was definitely not good news that someone had started a rebellion under the pretext of Ivlorien.

Especially since the new Queen Arielta of Redgardo ascended the throne, she was planning to use her sister-in-law, Christina, to sacrifice Angelica, one of the kingdom's two female knights, to the evil god in exchange for the power to protect the kingdom and maintain her power. Suddenly, a being with the same name as the evil god she intended to sacrifice, under the banner of the Kingdom of Ivlorien, appeared on the kingdom's borders, forcing her to be cautious.

It was already late at night, but the castle in the core area of ​​Greenstern, the border city of the Kingdom of Ridgardo, was brightly lit: the leaders of the local government and border garrisons gathered there to discuss how to deal with today's sudden change.

For the first time, the Lord of Greenstern did not occupy the main seat in the meeting. Instead, the main seat was occupied by a tall, green-haired female general.